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Sindhi Creators Sharing Sindhi Culture Through Their Content
Sindhi content creators are preserving their rich cultural heritage by showcasing Sindhi textiles, food, language, and rituals, keeping traditions alive through their content.
With their unwavering dedication, Sindhi Content Creators are doing their best to keep the Sindhi Culture alive through their content creation skills. They tirelessly spread awareness about Sindhi textiles, language, food, songs, rituals, and festivities, ensuring the rich heritage of Sindhis.
Did you know? Sindhis worship Jhulelal—Varun Devta and they always greet everyone by saying “Jai Jhulelal.”
Top Sindhi Content Creators:
Bhavisha Ramesh Jaisinghani @bhavisha.jaisinghani
Instagram followers: 46.6K
Bhavisha Ramesh Jaisinghani is a home chef from Ulhasnagar, Mumbai, who loves cooking Sindhi food and has become a content creator. She started creating content a year ago and has gained a massive following on her Instagram handle. Her daughter is her backbone in her content creation journey, as she handles her social media pages.
Bhavisha aims to make Sindhi food popular worldwide so that people know how beautifully it is prepared with all the special Sindhi spices.
Bhavisha has also been to India’s Master Chef thrice, but she couldn’t continue ahead due to her husband’s health issues. As a single mother, she’s stayed independent and conducts cooking and baking classes. Students from foreign come to her to learn cooking so that their simple cooking turns into a lip-smacking and delicious cuisine.
She teaches Sindhi, Chinese and Spanish cuisines amongst various other cuisines. Her home-cooked Majoon (dry fruits and mawa sweet), and Lola (made with wheat flour, jaggery, sugar and ghee) are delivered across countries like London, Dubai, Jamaica, Spain, South Africa, Jakarta and Karachi, Pakistan.
Gaurav Poptani @gauravpoptanimusic
Instagram followers: 3,226
Gaurav Poptani is a Sindhi singer from Akola, Maharashtra. His mother’s dream was to become a singer before her marriage, but due to restrictions from her family, she couldn’t fulfill her dream, so now Gaurav wants to fulfill her dream. Also, his mother, Bharti Poptani, released a Sindhi bhajan ‘Akhe jo Bhajan’ on YouTube. While learning to play the tabla, singing classes also used to take place there and gradually Gaurav started getting fascinated by singing and learning it, too. He used to learn Hindustani classical singing, wherein he learned a few Raags and applied that to his Sindhi singing journey.
Being a self-trained Sindhi singer was a challenging journey for him. Gaurav also won a few singing competitions held in Akola. Similarly, where his name was published in the newspaper, and that’s how he became famous.
In 2023, he released his two Sindhi songs, “Sindhi Mithdi Boli” and “Chaliye Jo Melo,” on Spotify and YouTube. He also hosts shows as a Sindhi Singer for Sindhi events across India. His shows are held in Ayodhya, Amravati, Akola, Satna, Bhusaval, Gondia, and many other places. A new sindhi song, based on “Maa,” will be released soon, as it has never happened before in the Sindhi industry, and will be sung by Gaurav Poptani.
Lakhan Gurdasani @thesindhshow
Instagram Followers: 32K
Lakhan Gurdasani is a Sindhi podcaster from Thane, Mumbai. Lakhan, the host of ‘The Sindh Show’, started this channel exactly a year ago in 2023 and he has almost completed half a century of episodes, with 6 seasons and 8 episodes each which is a wonderful way of presenting Sindhi culture and creating awareness about Sindhis. Every language has its own podcast be it Hindi, Marathi, or Gujarati so why not a Podcast in Sindhi? That’s how Lakhan launched ‘The Sindh Show’. Before he was thinking of a name something like ‘Talk Show with Lakhan Gurdasani’ or ‘Chai Coffee with Lakhan Gurdasani.’ But he thought of doing something related to his mother tongue ‘Sindhi’, and that’s how ‘The Sindh Show’ came into existence.
Lakhan started with a 4-member team and now has 9 people in his team. The Sindhi Show has completed 32K followers in a year on Instagram and on YouTube it’s about to complete 5K subscribers.
Lakhan is also a passionate singer. He sings in Hindi and Sindhi and holds shows across India, such as Jaipur, Jabalpur, Indore, Mumbai, etc. This is also a way in which he creates content to spread sindhi culture through his melodious voice. He also conducts Hindustani classical singing and guitar classes.
Dr. Umesh Wadhavani @chaikokinutrition
Instagram followers: 16K
Dr. Umesh Wadhavani is originally from a small village in Gujarat called Piplod and currently resides in Pune. Studied for his Master’s in Healthcare Management from Oxford University in the UK and worked there for 11 years. Coming back to India due to the pandemic that was a time that he did not have anything to do. So he thought of content creation. He started creating videos in his farm in his village in Piplod, his nephew shot it, wherein he use to give health tips being a professional Nutritionist. Now, he has a 19-member team for his content creation.
Dr. Umesh wants people to live medicine-free lives, and he doesn’t believe in healing people. Moreover, with fancy diets but instead with homemade food. People started liking his content, so they approached him for personal consultations, corporate seminars, sessions at religious communities, and the Lions Club. He thought, what could be a better love language than our mother tongue, Sindhi? Thus, he started his Sindhi content creation journey with ‘Chai Koki Nutrition’. In just three months, he got 16K followers on this Instagram handle.
These budding sindhi content creators are contributing greatly to spreading awareness. However, about Sindhi culture, to reach and teach their language all over the world.